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Robert Hughes of Woodside
UK House of Lords
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Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside is a British Labour politician, who was also Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa. Educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen and in South Africa where he lived 1947?1954, he worked as a draughtsman. He was the Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North from 1970 to 1997, and on 27 September 1997 was created a Life peer as Baron Hughes of Woodside, of Woodside in the City of Aberdeen. He was Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from March 1974 ? July 1975, but resigned in disagreement with the government's Incomes Policy. Lord Hughes is a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association. Under his chairmanship the Anti-Apartheid Movement campaigned against the Thatcher government?s refusal to impose sanctions against South Africa in the 1980s and organised the 1988 ?Free Mandela? concert at Wembley Stadium which was televised by the BBC and broadcast around the world. Hughes attended the independence celebrations in Namibia in 1990 and acted as an observer at South Africa?s first democratic elections in April 1994. 
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January 3rd, 1932 in United Kingdom  /  Died:   Jan 7th, 2022 - aged 90
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